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WH Smith Online Book Shop, UK - Othello This is a title in an inexpensive range of classics in the 'Penguin Popular Classics' series. ... A Knight's Tale - (DVD) Odd period action adventure with a bit of romance and a rock soundtrack. Heath Ledger plays a squire who tries to pass himself off as a knight in a jousting tournament while Paul Bettany is gambler and struggling writer Chaucer. Daft but fun. The DVD is packed with extra features including 'We Are The Champions' music video by Robbie Williams & Queen a Making Of featurette several behind-the-scenes featurettes six deleted scenes and a commentary from director Brian Helgeland with Bettany. ... Prison Diary On Thursday 19th July 2001 after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. This is the daily diary of his 22 days and 14 hours in HMP Belmarsh a double A-category high security prison in London which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. ... The Brittas Empire Series 2 (Two Discs) News filters through that Gordon Brittas has been killed whilst on a course in Bulgaria and the staff are both happy and relieved. Business at the centre picks up and a peaceful calm enters the building. However all this changes dramatically when Gordon returns from the dead! Features every episode from the second series- 'Back From The Dead' 'Temple Of The Body' 'An Inspector Calls' 'Set In Concrete' 'Mums And Dads' 'Safety First' and 'New Generations'. ... Vagina Monologues 'I decided to talk to women about their vaginas to do vagina interviews which became vagina monologues...At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy. But once they got going you couldn't stop them. Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited mainly because no one's ever asked them before.' A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier the ultimate forbidden zone 'The Vagina Monologues' is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women it has been performed in cities and colleges throughout the world and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement - V-Day - to stop violence against women. Eve Ensler's work gives voice to real women's fantasies and fears. ... Henry VIII A new adaptation of the life and times of Henry VIII. The enigma of Henry VIII - tyrant womaniser and the man who changed England forever - continues to fascinate Britain centuries after his death. Ray Winstone brings history's most beguiling monarch to life in this story of Henry VIII revealing the destruction Henry often left in his wake during his extraordinary 38 year reign. From the moment Henry Tudor casts aside his faithful wife Katherine of Aragon for the bewitching and determined Anne Boleyn (Helena Bonham Carter) he sets himself on course for a series of disastrous marriages. Violent conflict both within the population and the church left England reeling while its complex and charismatic King turned from handsome playboy to a bitter invalid desperate for a son and heir to the throne... ...
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WHSmith (WHS) is one of the UK's leading retail groups incorporating market leading companies in retail, publishing and news distribution. The Group has 1,464 stores world-wide, 30,747 employees in 12 countries and sales of some £2.9bn.
WHSmith is the UK's number one family retailer selling a range of products that extends across education, entertainment and information. Each year WHSmith High Street stores sell enough pens to circle the earth; enough books to fill a library shelf from London to Edinburgh; and enough paper to write a letter to everyone in the world. WH Smith also sell 122 million magazines and newspapers each year - enough to make a pile 69 times taller than Mount Everest.
The first High Street store was a small news vendor opened in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street, London, by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna. Today, WHSmith has 545 High Street stores, covering over 3 million square feet of selling space and employing 17,000 staff. Clubcard, the Company's loyalty scheme, has more than 5 million members.
Books, newspapers, magazines and stationery form the core of the High Street business. WHSmith sell more books than any other retailer in England, Scotland and Wales. For example, one in three copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were bought from WHSmith in the first weekend of release. WHSmith promote new authors with their Fresh Talent showcase and also have the Thumping Good Read Award that is voted for by members of Clubcard.
WHSmith's major stores stock more than 45,000 product lines, whereas an average food supermarket carries around 10,000 lines.
WHSmith currently holds a strong market share in each of the core categories in which it trades - books, stationery, news, magazines and entertainment. WH Smith's strategy is to exploit the strength, power and potential of the WHSmith brand to provide the very best service and value for money for their customers, shareholders and wider community.
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